As NASA selects payloads it plans to fly on commercial lunar landers, companies developing those spacecraft are skeptical any landers will be ready to fly this year, as the agency desires.
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The Pentagon would ask Congress to approve “special temporary authorities” for the secretary of defense to transfer resources from other services to the Department of the Air Force and the Space Force.
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EchoStar wishes it ordered its latest satellite, Jupiter-3, sooner than it did, but won’t seek to play catch up by buying another copy of the satellite in order to meet surging demand for broadband connectivity, executives said Feb. 21.
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At the end of 2018, division chief Clare Grason and her entire satellite communications team at the Defense Information Systems Agency moved over to work in the same capacity under Gen. John (“Jay”) Raymond at the Air Force Space Command (AFSPC).
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As Blue Origin prepares to start flying people on its New Shepard suborbital vehicle, the company’s founder says the altitude the vehicle can reach will put it at an advantage over Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo.
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The Indonesian communications satellite that is SpaceX’s primary payload for its second Falcon 9 launch this year overcame a change of manufacturers and the loss of a U.S. Ex-Im Bank loan to reach the launch pad.
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Virgin Galactic scrubbed the Feb. 20 flight test for SpaceShipTwo, the air-launched suborbital spaceplane, due to high winds in Mojave, California. The flight test is now scheduled for Friday, Feb. 22.
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The new chair of the House space subcommittee says she’s looking forward to working with the commercial space industry on a number of issues, including oversight of non-traditional space activities.
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A slow start for Eutelsat’s Konnect Africa broadband venture and losses in activities beyond the fleet operator’s core business contributed to a 4.4 percent decline in revenue during the last half of 2018.
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As LeoStella inaugurated the factory that will be used to produce a series of Earth imaging satellites, the joint venture of Thales Alenia Space and Spaceflight Industries continues to look for other customers.
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Annex thesis:
The analysis of the infrared data (0.76 to 3.15 microns) from ISM imaging spectrometer on the Phobos 2 probe can be used to decide between the wind, volcanic, sedimentary and hydrothermal deposits and the Amazonian Hespériens component inside the Mariner Valley on Mars.

1983-1985 Bachelor’s degree in Geological and Mineralogical Sciences
University: Free University of Brussels

Work experience

January 2006 – present Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy

Managing Director of the Belgian User Support and Operations Centre
The B.USOC (http://www.busoc.be) is an operational services center of the Belgian Federal Science Policy (BELSPO). The mission of the centre includes the following features:
• To provide technical and operational assistance in the preparation, implementation and operation of space scientific experiments planed by Belgian academic or scientific institutions or by institutes or Belgian research centers;
• To provide the operational support in the context of space missions involving these same institutions.

This function includes the following aspects:
• The implementation of the annual actions plan;
• The management and distribution of tasks assigned to staff activities;
• Coordination with people or organizations involved in the preparation and / or completion of an experiment or a mission in which B.USOC is involved.
• The prioritization of tasks related to a project or program;
• managing budgetary aspects and follow-up of contractual aspects related to the BUSOC activities and projects;
• monitoring of the B.USOC industrial contracts and subcontracts
• Supervising the public procurement procedures, with the possibility of delegation;
• Prepare the planning of B.USOC activities and projects for the short and medium term;
• Recurrent information to the Steering Committee B.USOC.

January 2001 to January 2006 Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy

Daily coordinator (a.i.) of the Belgian User Support and Operations Centre: responsible for Space science, operations and Telescience

This function includes the following aspects:
• The implementation of B.USOC as part of the preparation of the "Belgian Taxi Flight" and the Belgian support to the ESA ISS Colombus programme
• The daily management of BUSOC (financial, accounting and human resources)
• Coordination of the support of all operations for the remote control experiments in space, support for mission preparation, archiving and dissemination of data relating thereto as well as tests of the necessary teleoperations infrastructures, including installation mission centers.
• Coordination of communications needs for teleoperations within Belgium and toward international space agencies and other countries.
• Development of communication networks, selection of connection type, hardware and software installed for this purpose
• Support to SOLAR (Solar Monitoring Observatory) and implementation of the Facility Responsible Centre (FRC) for this project. Support to the experiments installed on the external ISS pallets (solar project experiences: SOVIM , SOLSPEC, SOL-ACES)

September 1989 to January 2001 Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy

Assistant. Responsible for the theoretical study of the Martian Atmosphere in the framework of the ESA SPICAM project.

From 1 September 1989 to 31 December 1998:
Program manager: Theoretical research on the atmosphere of Mars subsidized by the Fund of Fundamental Scientific Research and Collective Ministerial Initiative (FRFSC-IM).
From 1 July 1993 to 21 July 1993:
Visiting scientist at NCAR, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
February 23, 1991 to May 25, 1991:
Visiting scientist at LASP (Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics) from the University of Colorado (USA)
From 1 September 1989 to 15 January 1990:
Assistant LASP (Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics) from the University of Colorado (USA)

August 1988 to September 1989: University of Colorado
Assistant Paid on a budget for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and performed in the Laboratory for Atmospheric Physics and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado at Boulder

Visiting scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR),Boulder, Colorado, USA.

January 1988 to August 1988 Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
Assistant

November 1987 to January 1988 Royal Museum for Central Africa
Assistant

2005 – 2006 Project PI for the implementation of a virtual federal research network in exobiology (COEX)
http://www.exobiologie.be/aboutcentre.htm

• Co-I of UV-VIS spectrometer for EXOMARS de l’ESA
• Co-I of SPICAM Light for Mars-Express
• Co-I « Tournesol » project between Belgian French Community and Observatoire de Paris-Meudon
• Co-I of the proposal to observe Martian dust storms With ISO (ESA)
• Co-I / Belgian Coordinator for the IR proposal of OSIRIS experiment for ROSETTA:Not selected by ESA
• Co-I of the Belgian-French-Russian mission in February 1995 to 6 m telescope Zelenchuk in the Caucasus in order to obtain infrared spectra of Mars to confirm the presence of organic molecules in the atmosphere
• Co-I of the Belgian-French-Russian mission in July 1994 to 6 m telescope Zelenchuk in the Caucasus in order to observe the effects of the impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy on the structure of the Jovian atmosphere
• Co-I of the mission Belgian-French-Russian April 1994 to 6 m telescope Zelenchuk in the Caucasus in order to observe Mars, Jupiter and other planets sources
• Co-I of the Belgian-French-Russian mission in February 1993 to 6 m telescope Zelenchuk in the Caucasus in order to observe Mars, Jupiter and other planets sources
• Co-I UV-visible and infrared SPICAM spectrometers, lost with the Russian MARS-96 probe

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